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Sep 2, 2018

Believe it or not, the Lego Bugatti Chiron moves

Not just a static Lego model: this 1,500kg hypercar replica actually drives
Andy Wallace famously set a world speed record in a McLaren F1. On 31
March 1998, he strapped himself into the three-seat, V12-engined
hypercar, set the steering wheel straight along VW’s Ehra-Lessien
circuit, and floored it.

He managed a whopping 240.1mph, scoring a top speed world record in the
process. Though that figure has today been eclipsed by the likes of
Bugatti, Hennessey and Koenigsegg, it remains the fastest top speed for a
car powered by a naturally aspirated engine.

Scary run, too, according to Andy. “The car only had 626bhp,” he tells
TopGear.com, “so therefore it had low drag, and low downforce… and
really started to wander. When you watch the video, you don’t really see
a lot, but if a car’s wandering at 200mph+, it’s really quite scary.

“There are a lot of trees along that stretch. If anything goes wrong, you’re in trouble,” he adds.

The reason he’s recounting this story is because he’s now driving
something altogether a lot slower at Ehra-Lessien. And less terrifying.
He’s driving a full-size, movable Lego Bugatti Chiron. Yeah, that one.
The one with over one million bricks, nearly 3,000 Lego Power Function
Motors and 5.2bhp.

“Honestly, I spent so many hours messing around with Lego when I was
younger. And then to hear that when you’re older, you’re going to drive a
full-size Lego car you think ‘yeah, whatever’. When they first
contacted me about driving it, my response was ‘duh, yeah’.”

So what was it like to drive a one-off, non-glued Lego Technic hypercar?

“Sitting on Lego bricks, with your feet way up high wasn’t very
comfortable,” he laughingly tells TG. “Though it wasn’t falling apart
and shaking. And the electric motors were actually quite smooth.

“It was alright.”

It’s capable of a theoretical top speed of 18mph… though they’ve not yet
reached that figure just yet. Click the play button to see it in
action.
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